Ten would like you to be our roving reporter!Recently channels Seven and Ten have been offering to broadcast material submitted by viewers, whether it's SMS, MMS or emails of footage, pictures or text messages. Ten's news director Jim Carroll said some footage of cyclone Larry they received from viewers was of broadcast quality and both Ten and Seven screened submissions in news bulletins. Yahoo7 have also published it online.
I'm sure you're thinking it would be exciting to have your footage screened nationally but it's worth reflecting on the deal they're offering, here I quote from Crikey.com.au:
Ten News Director Jim Carroll acknowledges that anyone who submits material to Ten using the new service will not be paid. Or to use his quaint phraseology, the material will be submitted “on a glory basis”. The reward is meant to be seeing your images used on the news.In other words, if you send them anything it becomes theirs. They own it. You might not even be able to put it in your portfolio.
Meanwhile, the fine print on the deal specifies that anyone submitting content grants Channel Ten a “perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, unrestricted world-wide licence to use, and license others to use, your footage.”
This is a dodgy deal.
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